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100

This phenomenon occurs when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide combine with water vapors and fall onto the earth as a cocktail of sulfuric and nitric acids

What is acid rain?

100

Domesticated for more than 10,000 years, this pet was one of the first animals domesticated by humans.

What is the dog?

100

During the Roman Civil War in 48 BCE Julius Caesar burnt down this famous library in North Africa 

What is the Library of Alexandria?

100

This is the numeric value of the Roman numeral L.

What is 50?

200

This is the water cycle process where water vapor turns into liquid water droplets

What is condensation?

200

Iguanas are able to hold their breath for up to this many minutes.

a. 2 minutes

b. 15 minutes

c. 30 minutes

What is c. 30 minutes?

200

This historical figure created the first public library in the United States

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

200

This is what the M stands for in the computer abbreviation RAM.

What is memory?

(Random Access Memory)

300

BJ Thomas performed this famous spring song on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which won the Academy Award for best original song that year. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1970.

What is "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"?

300

Hailing from Scandinavia, the Skogkatt is better known by this English version of its name

What is the Norwegian forest cat?

It is a natural breed and originates from Norway. Although the origins are unknown, according to Norwegian folklore they were family pets of the Vikings. Unlike most cats they like water, and catch fish in lakes and streams. 


300

The New York Public Library is one of the filming locations for this 1984 supernatual comedy film

What is Ghostbusters?

300

These are the last four words of the U.S. national anthem.

What are "Home of the brave"?

300

This is Shakespeare's longest play, a famous tragedy about a Danish prince seeking revenge for his father's murder by his uncle, Claudius, who has usurped the throne and married the prince's mother, Gertrude.

What is Hamlet?

400

This continent is the driest on earth

What is Antarctica?

400

Dogs only sweat from the bottoms of their feet, and the only way they can discharge heat is by doing this.

What is panting?

400

 The first card catalog was developed during this period of political upheaval, when revolutionaries used playing cards to take inventory of libraries confiscated from exiled or executed aristocrats

What is the French Revolution?

400

"All children, except one, grow up" is the opening line in this classic 1911 novel.

What is Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie?

(Peter Pan)

500

This is the animal that is commonly associated with predicting rain.

 

What are frogs?

(Also will accept the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (or "rain crow"), swifts, cows lying down, and elephants, which can detect distant rain with their feet)

500

In 2025, this breed was the most popular dog breed in the United States

A. Labrador Retriever

B. Pittbull

C. French Bulldog

What is the French Bulldog?

500
This president sold his private collection of books to the Library of Congress following the war of 1812 and invented its original classifcation system.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

500

This is the world's largest desert.

What is the Sahara Desert?